| 单词 | drivel |
| 例句 | “We do not publish gossip. We do not publish drivel. We certainly do not begin accusing the police of shirking their duties. Do I make myself clear?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Abstruse calculations, geometric forms and algebraic terms, unusual correlations—all have been used to adorn the silliest drivel. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Does this mean all that drivel about the Augurs being possessed by spirits of the dead is true? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Had he known what drivel filled his head, he would have shouted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Instead of drivelling away about knots and vacuum cleaners and lions, and making me miserable for weeks and weeks.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I say, "But no NMH fan would ever listen to this drivel." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z It was mere drivelling nonsense that I talked out there in the shell-hole. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Beastly Thibaut is here with another man today, hence I am writing like a demon, any old drivel, so as not to draw attention to myself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Please. I highly doubt Newton wasted his time on this drivel.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Or drivel In other words, what kind of verb goes with a phrase like one of the, one of those, or one of these? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "I was just part of this greater thing, or place, or force, or energy," he drivels, like a semi-articulate hippy. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z He had come to "loath" the characters, describing them as "zeroes", the novels as "drivel". Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z It ended with the New York premiere of Steven Stucky’s “Skylarks,” written in 2001, his feisty settings of six varied poems, including a haiku, Emily Dickinson’s elusive “Split the Lark” and some Edward Lear drivel. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers, Led by Clara Longstreth 2012-06-03T22:15:08Z I'm surprised that an artist of Elton's age and experience continues to believe this drivel, nor that he's forgotten that his own route to stardom included a stint in Tin Pan Alley. Don't knock The X Factor, Elton 2010-10-19T13:05:00Z Why am I watching this drivel, you wonder, when I could be watching a tumor the size of a golf ball being removed from a brain? | 'NY Med': ‘NY Med’ on ABC, Produced by Terence Wrong 2012-07-09T22:49:11Z But Blasco’s macho drivel is the least of the group’s worries. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z A glimmer of the outside world is shushed to make room for drivel about one’s leisure habits. “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Whether or not we can completely banish drivel and have conversations based solely on reason is anybodies guess. Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z That said, I have been aghast over the last eight years to see the kind of drivel that is considered "classified". Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain - review 2012-11-23T08:00:01Z Times critic Charles McNulty called the production “exploitative drivel,” and questions arose whether “God Looked Away” was a last-gasp effort to raise money. Can this man save the Pasadena Playhouse? 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z I read some more from the verses, poorly written inspirational Christian drivel. Sex, facing death 2012-06-11T00:00:00Z He goes into Kakutani mode, imagining her racing to review a pile of books: “Jonathan Franzen and ‘The Corrections,’ drivel, claptrap. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z You may not like it or “get” it, but it is in every way the opposite of the stale, tedious, market-tested drivel you so rightly complain about. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z To top it off, it is not only Trump in the executive spouting of Islamophobic drivel, he has surrounded himself with Islamophobes. America’s real Muslim problem is Islamophobia 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z It is the drivel of disembodied voices narrating bad documentaries about Beethoven and Mozart. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z “How could the big moguls in their plush counting houses high above Manhattan not read a guy who wrote that ‘on the TV screen pure drivel tends to drive out ordinary drivel’?” Marvin Kitman, Satirist Whose Main Target Was TV, Dies at 93 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Critics sharpened their knives, often dismissing the film as exploitative drivel. William Peter Blatty, author of ‘The Exorcist,’ dies at 89 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “Had to resort to putting the subtitles on to understand half the drivel being mumbled in new Doctor Who,” chimed in one UK tweeter. American Doctor Who fans befuddled by Capaldi's accent: 'He should be called Doctor What!?' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Give us a writing tip.When you can't write, write drivel. Paperback Q&A: Jane Rogers on The Testament of Jessie Lamb 2012-08-21T14:38:26Z "Most of it has been pretty average drivel," she says of her acting career. Joanna Lumley: 'I'm a happy person. But injustice I loathe' 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z Or that awful whiney, bedwetting drivel everyone on Twitter recommends to one another. Sixty things I've learned since turning 60 2013-04-29T16:53:01Z I could count 3,000 words, but they were faltering, joyless drivel. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z Pointless drivel punctuated with the occasional genius song we pretend we discovered before anyone else. Blog jam: Sounds Good to Me Too 2012-07-19T08:06:00Z He called Bob Dylan’s songs “10th-rate drivel,” fit only for “a completely noncritical audience.” Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z We wanted to explore Big Ideas beyond the relentless drivel of the news cycle. Can three comedians transcend the red-blue divide? 2011-08-26T20:30:00Z The title track, a duet with Willie Nelson, and the song, “Looking for a Woman,” are exactly what Nashville should produce in place of the endlessly derivative drivel dominant of mainstream country radio. Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Instead, she established a habit of talking over her co-hosts while saying little to nothing of substance and expecting them to accept her unmoored drivel as a legitimate point of view. From Hasselbeck to McCain, "The View" needs the "right" hook when casting its conservative co-host 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It feels like a deranged video game, where players are blindfolded and win only if they accidentally come across a good tweet among a mudslide of drivel. .@Twitter. Who Do You Think You Are? 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z "Being judgmental" is a very bad thing in the OMG studio, however gormless the drivel flowing from one's mouth is. Grace Dent's TV OD: OMG! With Peaches Geldof 2011-03-12T00:07:02Z Visually compelling, the Minions’ other trump card is the torrent of high-octane, seemingly multi-lingual drivel that somehow succeeds in expressing their uncomplicated intentions. Pierre Coffin: Me and my Minions 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Because fragrance is all but impossible to describe, its makers often resort to narrative drivel. A Scented Diary of a Lockdown 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Sure, but a glimpse of the preview tells any reasonably bright viewer that this is odious, sexist drivel. Review: ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,’ Antics to Not Love nor Cherish 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z If I can get away with this drivel, then there is hope for all of us. Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho – review 2013-03-24T18:59:01Z There is a minimum of interpretative drivel or theatrical infotainment. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z His only endeavor is drivel he never deletes, These tweets of Donald Trump. Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes it's hard being a theatre blogger ... online amateur critics don't get paid for their efforts, drivel or not. Noises off: Netizens of the world unite 2010-09-17T15:29:00Z Reading drivel convincingly from cue cards is not his especial gift, but then the words on the cue cards hardly deserve a better performance. TV review: Take Me Out 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Is it because they invent new units of measurement – "half a yard" – or model provincial disco clothes, or talk drivel about "role models"? Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z Cox tweeted: "Sarah Vine should speak to her husband about the impact of science and history programming before scribbling her drivel in the Times". Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z However, the fear of being proved wrong is so great today that almost every new work which isn’t patently drivel gets the benefit of the doubt. Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z Yes, she's famous for saying bananas, but her collection is not the usual reality drivel. On the Runway Blog: Rachel Zoe and Reality 2012-09-12T21:04:27Z The ambulances in America will always be full because men with guns who spend too much time reading drivel on the Internet will never stop killing us. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Perhaps it too has lost much sense of what's right and what's wrong, and relies on drivel to justify its antics. Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z This week’s story is about a writer writing about being a writer—“the sort of navel-gazing drivel that I’d regarded with contempt while I was blithely finishing my first book,” the narrator says. Callan Wink on Fiction in the Age of “Alternative Facts” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z I do enjoy reading what I see as drivel. Homeless in Seattle, and Marrying Under the Overpass 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z What can I tell you of pain, you who have worked your way through pages of this meaningless, turgid drivel? Digested classic: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 2010-04-30T09:38:00Z But she goes on to argue that despite all the drivel online there is also a massive amount of "dynamic and intelligent commentary on art and society". Noises off: Netizens of the world unite 2010-09-17T15:29:00Z Indeed, Mr. Reed prides himself on bucking the tide of popularity, decreeing “The Shape of Water,” which got a 93 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, ”a loopy, lunkheaded load of drivel.” Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z This has proved difficult, however, because ever since the new Mrs. Savage moved in, Lionel has been unable to produce anything but drivel. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z I think I’d rather watch the closing montage from Requiem for a Dream every hour of every day for the rest of my life than be subjected to this drivel. Anatomy of a scene: how Steve Harvey destroyed Miss Universe 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Critics may call it muddled drivel, but this drivel is selling. "The Nevers" is proof that cancel culture isn't really canceling the right people 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Not even Judy Davis' patented brand of Australian received pronunciation could make us believe that a grown-up had written this drivel. TV review: Whitlam: The Power and the Passion 2013-05-27T00:10:21Z The book’s harsher detractors scorned it as Prussian-minded drivel, with a reviewer for The Nation jeering, “Mussolini’s old slogan had more style: Believe, obey, fight!” Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Q. Most of the movie fare coming to my small-town multiplex is mainstream Hollywood drivel, tedious remakes and unfunny, unsophisticated comedies. Recycled Films and Bitsy Screens 2011-05-22T00:43:01Z Proving definitively that slapping Mr. Franco’s scenery-eating grin on any old drivel doesn’t guarantee entertainment, “Why Him?” is trite, crass and insultingly moronic. Review: ‘Why Him?’ Better Yet, Why This Movie? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Basic cable drivel taking up space on a premium cable channel. "The Nevers" is proof that cancel culture isn't really canceling the right people 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z But I’m with Libby in hearing sheer drivel. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Bill Waxes On About Love, but Does He Sound Believable? 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Now any and all amounts of Gaga-inspired drivel are not only acceptable, but also necessary if you want to appear relevant to the under-50 crowd. The coming of Gaga-ism 2010-03-20T11:00:00Z He had described a newspaper report that they had dropped by 30,000 as "drivel", but it was later confirmed the figure was correct. Murray Foote appointed SNP chief executive 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z I open it and the usual drivel unfolds. 'They say I'm a prostitute because I lost a match' 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z “I think that in some ways dispels the myth that much of the left will perpetuate that this is somehow you know, a racist party or whatever drivel.” Diverse Republican presidential primary field sees an opening in 2024 with voters of color 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z He was from an old Prussian noble family, a Junker, and he had no time for romantic nationalist drivel, yet he directly brought about German unification. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least with Boris you felt that he was talking to you — even though he might have been talking drivel, and maybe lying through his back teeth as well.” Trounced, Conservatives Feel Voters’ Wrath in English Heartlands 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z He resigned from his role as the SNP's media chief after describing press reports that the party's membership had dropped by 30,000 as "inaccurate" and "drivel". Former SNP spindoctor attacks 'grotesque' police probe 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z He had described press reports on the subject as "inaccurate" and "drivel". SNP not in a mess, it's growing pains - Sturgeon 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z He had described press reports about falling membership numbers as "drivel", before the party confirmed a big drop in numbers to 72,000. SNP candidates can be confident in leadership race, says Mike Russell 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Our current corporate media has done a horrible job informing the masses of the fundamental stupidity that leads people to believe in such drivel. It was the year of "eh, not bad" — and also of avoiding the obvious 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Pizza Rebellion's website said it only used "great healthy ingredients" and that its concept was about "rebelling against the normal takeaway drivel". Portsmouth City Council's pizza machine plan for Southsea withdrawn 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “There were so many fine people, you couldn’t turn in drivel. They would laugh at you,” recalled Uhelszki. Creem has risen: A once-extinct rock magazine is on a quest to make itself vital again 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Various iterations of it have, it would seem, turned out to be drivel. Chris Mason: Can people believe what No 10 is saying? 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z They tended to associate this genre of music with the drivel piped into a touristy sugar shack, or cabane à sucre: ceaseless marionette music cluttered with the infernal racket of spoons. I Can Always Feel Like I’m Back Home in Montreal by Tapping My Feet 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Naturally, Carlson framed this argument as a strike against the elites who want to silence hard truths, because reframing reactionary drivel as rebellion is his one big rhetorical trick. Putin's war crimes — and his military failures — are making his GOP apologists squirm 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z It is also a place where drivel and deceit are quickly set aside as a waste of precious time. Opinion | Donald Trump is wasting our time 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Barr rejects as “drivel” criticism that his summary of the special counsel’s report that he issued before the report became public was distorted in a way that favored Trump. Barr Rebukes Trump as ‘Off the Rails’ in New Memoir 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z The book often is an awkward mixture of strategic reticence and obvious evasions, but not on one important point: He demolishes what he calls the “drivel” about fraud stealing the 2020 election. Opinion | If Trump runs in 2024, he may find Chris Christie ready to rumble 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z President Putin recently dismissed the suggestion as "utter nonsense, drivel and politically-motivated tittle-tattle." Moldova: Russia threatens gas supply in Europe's poorest state 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z I’ve seen similar drivel pass for good copy over the years. Perspective | Padma Lakshmi says disparaging Indian food isn’t funny. It’s ugly. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Many sound a negative theme, such as, “This is the stupidest drivel ever printed in The Washington Post.” Some readers hate my ‘flowery’ wine descriptors. Here’s why I use them. 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Yes, people do get a little bit upset when major TV celebrities use their platform to sell anti-Semitic drivel to their viewers. Tucker Carlson's insecurity and the "great replacement" theory 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Or does he believe the drivel he spouts about bipartisanship and just loves all the attention? Joe Manchin learned all of the wrong lessons from the Capitol riot: "Jan. 6 changed me" 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Everything else is diversionary drivel, political posturing and a waste of time for council, county administration, taxpayers, voters and residents. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z “And then it was back to their predictable drivel, trying to strike fear into the hearts of viewers on coronavirus and offer newscasts that are in-kind donations to the Biden campaign.” CNN skips historic Amy Coney Barrett hearing, gets bashed 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Plus he had — and still has — a special talent for treating drivel as gospel, as long as it’s tumbling from his lips. Opinion | Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z "Anyone who believes this drivel is a BIGOT. No wiggle room," actor Dean Cain wrote. Two journalists, from The Washington Post and CNN, agree with Jemele Hill's claim that Trump voters are 'racist' 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “We keep on kidding ourselves that unless we do everything that China wants we will somehow miss out on great trading opportunities. It’s drivel.” Chris Patten: China's security laws a betrayal of Hong Kong people 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z More than that, I'm surprised the press corps didn't break into hysterical laughter at the sheer absurdity of that sanctimonious drivel. Pair of toadies: As Barr tries to protect Trump, Graham may be shoving him off a cliff 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z People keep dying while the president keeps spouting drivel, so stemming that misinformation is arguably the most urgent priority. Perspective | Can Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci serve President Trump in good conscience? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z With Trump using his bully pulpit to spew drivel, lies and flimflam, it's more important than ever for journalists to give voice to the experts. Here's what the press should be asking: How will we know when it's safe to come out? 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z To many observers, such a diet of drivel would be a recipe for despair — or at least jadedness. The Political Junkie Runs for President 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The substance of what he said — the accusation, the insinuation, the lie, the canard, the drivel — isn't as newsworthy as the fact that he engaged in that kind of behavior. Trump unbound: President escalates attacks on the courts — and reporters do stenography 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Cummings said the government didn’t need more “drivel” from humanities graduates from Oxbridge — the shorthand for Oxford and Cambridge universities — but “genuine cognitive diversity.” Boris Johnson aide who seemed to support eugenics resigns, in major embarrassment for British government 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z And after consuming thousands of hours of Rupert Murdoch’s finest drivel, I’ve learned a few things about how America’s No 1 news network is dragging the United States into ruin. I watched Fox News every day for 44 months – here's what I learned 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Crane’s statement was the usual drivel about the Astros being “committed to using our voice to create awareness and support on the issue of domestic violence.” Column: Astros have shown disdain for media over and over 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The company’s communications and policy chief, Jay Carney, told the paper, “I didn’t realize the Wall Street Journal trafficked in warmed-over drivel from supermarket tabloids.” Is Amazon Unstoppable? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z One assumes WeWork will also jettison its corporate drivel about “elevating the world’s consciousness” if it now accepts it’s a regular company in the dull world of shared office spaces. WeWork’s long road to rehabilitation starts with ditching its co-founder | Nils Pratley 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z He described their questions variously as “blah blah blah blah fishcakes,” “absolute drivel” and “rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb.” Women in Parliament Call Out Boris Johnson for His Incendiary Language on Brexit 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z After Trump slouched into a denunciation of white nationalism, he gunked it up with some drivel about there being “very fine people on both sides.” Don’t miss the real story on white nationalism 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z He told me, “She can find those unusual notes—I think she makes a point of it and goes for that. ‘Nobody’ could be horrible pop drivel, but in her case it’s perfect. On the Road with Mitski 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Is the current zeitgeist liberating ideas or monetizing drivel? Review | Set in the milieu of the French literary life, Olivier Assayas’s latest film is a sublime pleasure 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Nothing against drivel and crud, of course, or the breathless idiocy of the very talented Ariana Grande. My secret to conducting an orchestra: Flail my arms and close my eyes till it's over 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Talk of “moderate Sunni Arab states,” a remarkably entrenched lore in American foreign-policy circles, is drivel. The Middle East’s Great Divide Is Not Sectarianism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z He must be mad to go on enduring the unexquisite agony of writing when it all turns out drivel. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z “I look at that commercial,” Mrs. Maas told Advertising Age years later, and think, “Did I really write that drivel?” Jane Maas, trailblazing woman in advertising’s era of ‘Mad Men,’ dies at 86 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z “To say that ‘illegal immigrants are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States’ is just drivel,” Conway wrote on Twitter, citing Trump’s contention that birthright citizenship was not guaranteed by the U.S. Trump jabs back at 'Mr. Kellyanne Conway,' an unusual critic 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “You’ve been accused of hating women, hating children, of hating clean air. . . . This drivel is patently absurd.” A Supreme scrum: It’s slam-bam in first round of Kavanaugh hearings 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Writers writing about writers—the sort of navel-gazing drivel that I regarded with contempt while I was blithely finishing my first book. “A Refugee Crisis” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Some Donald Trump tweets are so bizarre that you have to puzzle over them and inject a bit of sense into them before you can finally dismiss them as the wingnut drivel that they are. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It is not easy to stay calm and rational when faced with the visceral, self-aggrandising, jingoistic drivel that flows endlessly from some in the leave camp. Auf wiedersehen, Britain: Brexit is forcing my German family to leave the country we call home 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z At home, she says, “nothing interesting was ever discussed. They were just talking drivel, all the time.” The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z “You don’t hear the word England as much as you should,” he told the Sun, spouting the kind of drivel that gives skinheads a bad name. Let's drop the euphemisms: Donald Trump is a racist president 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Pundits reasoned that nobody capable of uttering such racist drivel could possibly be a legitimate candidate. How do progressives defeat Donald Trump? The first step is learning to expect the unexpected 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Putin said, “It’s complete drivel, rubbish, nonsense that somebody in Russia would allow themselves to do such a thing ahead of elections and the World Cup.” Opinion | Russia’s frantic parade of lies 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z When Jesus warned his disciples that they would face persecutions, the suffering we see in this pernicious, self-admiring drivel is probably the very opposite of what he had in mind. A Christian critic wrestles with new biblical films and the hope of a better 'faith-based' cinema 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z "It would be rubbish, drivel, nonsense, for Russia to embark on such an escapade on the eve of a presidential election," the president told reporters after results pointed to an overwhelming victory. For Russia's triumphant Putin, more muscle-flexing likely, especially on international stage 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z “I think any sensible person would understand that it would be rubbish, drivel, nonsense, for Russia to embark on such an escapade on the eve of a presidential election.” Vladimir Putin: 'nonsense' to think Russia would poison spy in UK 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z If there is one group that benefits from anti Russian drivel in our media it's Ukrainian fascists. In Ukraine, Corruption Is Now Undermining the Military 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z How much longer do we have to be subjected to trump's drivel? Trump Tries to Shift Blame to Obama for Not Countering Russian Meddling 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The pitiful thing is, that drivel was exactly what I needed to hear. Perspective | My disgraceful, inept marriage proposal had a happy ending 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Because of this, it's become harder and harder to weed through some of the site's absolute drivel to find anything that's worth the time to watch, read, accidentally retweet, etc. Host of Big East Shootaround takes painful slip and fall in the snow like an absolute champ - Golf Digest 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z You can spare yourself the frustration of watching the same 25 percent of the electorate, seeped in Fox News drivel, refuse to acknowledge reality. Opinion | Guidelines for news-watching and staying sane in 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Your identity politics drivel is not going to solve rail safety issues, anymore than Hillary win would have. Amtrak Inquiry Will Focus on Driver Distraction and Excessive Speed 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z While Russia may have stoked the flames of this conspiracy theory, Clinton's chief adviser, perhaps with Clinton's knowledge, attempted to use this conspiracy drivel for political gain. Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Science seeks knowledge; it is based on observation and thinking, not fantasy and incoherent drivel. Questioning Evolution: The Push to Change Science Class 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z “In the sewer” doesn’t begin to describe this drivel. Opinion | Willie Horton, Updated for the Trump Era 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Better silence than bending your ear endlessly with drivel. The Doorman Speaks 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z A former film student who was baptized at age 24, Tikhon also said he had read the script for “Matilda” and called the trailer “drivel.” A Russian love story about Nicholas II and a ballerina leads to death threats 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But mostly we write it off as "some idiot" who is just clueless and spouting drivel. The Agency 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The internet is full of celebrity drivel, so print magazines who focus on the rich and famous will need to find something unique if they are to retain paying audiences. Magazines: How print is surviving the digital age - BBC News 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Return to the old "Never iffy if it's Griffey" days and exit the drivel produced by these talking heads... A Struggling ESPN Lays Off Many On-Air Personalities 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The quote at the end of the article is non scientific drivel. Sugary Drinks Tied to Accelerated Brain Aging 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z It is, however, the same disgusting drivel that was thrown at Irish, Polish and Italian immigrants a century ago. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Times readers, when I hear Bill Walton’s constant drivel and pointless meandering, I want to turn off the TV. Letters: Plenty of Madness to go around 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z His tweets are a diversion, many of them celebrity-on-celebrity drivel without a dust mite of dignity. After the loud talk, watch the walk 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z This baseless drivel is fake news at its most patently absurd. Trump has made a safe zone for fact-free discourse, and ‘pizzagate’ proves it 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z “It is also theologically suspect, and large parts of it are leftist drivel,” he added. Trump’s Climate Contrarian: Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Do not let this drivel discourage you from exercising and doing yoga. How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body 2012-01-05T05:00:00Z Anyway, the Cubs thanked you for the locker-room pinup you provided with your drivel by winning Game 4 in a rout. Dodgers fans still replaying the Adrian Gonzalez 'out' call in their minds 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z An executive sniffed that it was “not obliged to carry every shred of drivel” and would not “provide a platform for outrageous and wild accusations”. All hail 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z "There's a natural tendency for older people to dismiss what younger people think as drivel," says Benjamin Lupu, a baby boomer and certified financial planner who owns Kensington A.M.I. in Burbank, California. 5 Finance Lessons Baby Boomers Could Learn From Millennials 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z I'm a little ashamed that I lived like this, actually, but I disagree with commentors that this article is drivel about first world problems. Making House: Notes on Domesticity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Listen to a mathematician who understands GDP and the frivolous drivel that Trump spouts. The Arithmetic in Donald Trump’s Jobs Plan Doesn’t Really Work 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Imagine a world in which this were really true in all areas of life and it quickly reveals itself as the ridiculous drivel that it is. Phyllis Schlafly, ‘First Lady’ of a Political March to the Right, Dies at 92 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z I can just say this article is pure drivel. The Dark Side of American Soccer Culture 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z But before long all this baloney and drivel reaches critical mass, and you realize that Trump regards violence as a legitimate political tool. How Trump winks at political violence 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “It pops up almost every summer — ‘nothing but blockbuster drivel!’ he said in an email. California Today: Is This the End for Movies? 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Now that Trump is speaking to a general electorate, he’s paying a higher price for his racist drivel. Letting Trump and the GOP self-destruct: Hillary and Democrats have the right strategy by laying low 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z My digust with the NYT —a resource I have read and trusted for decades—for publishing such drivel as this, is growing. Lights, Camera, Trump 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Negative comments not based on gender or race can be hurtful and demoralizing, too — and can’t be dismissed as sexist or racist drivel. Comments are making the internet worse. So we got rid of them. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s drivel, dreamy and gauzy and meaningless boilerplate, and it drives the masses who found the imperfect mouthpiece in Donald Trump, all but crazy. WESLEY PRUDEN: The unexpected peril of a brokered convention 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He was a champion of imperialism, the white man’s burden and other such drivel, but the poem is a bully-pulpit exhortation to manliness that is not yet out of date. Rubio joins Trump in the sandbox 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Just look at the contents of that fridg- Oh hang on, there’s more. “... in thinking that yesterday’s football was the most unappetising drivel since drivel appeared on a menu next to something French?” Chelsea v Manchester City: FA Cup fifth round – live! 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z This is the kind of platitudinous drivel that Rubio spews on the stump. Marco Rubio is not a moderate: If the Florida senator represents mainstream conservatism, the GOP is screwed 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Like everything else Trump says, this is empty drivel. The religious right exposed: Donald Trump’s speech at Liberty University proves just how gullible evangelical voters are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Typical haters drivel...assuming that every rumor is true and that, but for, success would be lacking. Patriots’ Winning Philosophy: Keep the Focus on Winning 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z If we don’t get closer to government, we’ll see the budget for science just drivel away. Powerful new agency recommended to oversee UK science funding 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “Unappetising drivel it may be, but I’ll say one thing about English football. It’s punctual. A four o’clock kick off means a four o’clock kick off.” Chelsea v Manchester City: FA Cup fifth round – live! 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z But capitalism, especially in America, suffers from an epidemic of public-relations drivel and legalese, not an epidemic of fraud. The story and the numbers 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “It’s relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal’s drivel,” the chairman said, “in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security.” The Benghazi committee stumbles into irrelevance 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z “Our ambassador was asked to respond to Sidney Blumenthal’s drivel, on the same day that he was asking for more security,” said Gowdy. Hillary Clinton deflects conservative jabs in marathon House Benghazi hearing 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Actually, not even the game, but merely the usual pregame drivel. Random thoughts on hypocrites, the Dodgers and the Angels 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “Unappetising drivel it may be, but I’ll say one thing about English football. It’s punctual. A four o’clock kick off means a four o’clock kick off.” Chelsea v Manchester City: FA Cup fifth round – live! 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z "One of the reviews on Amazon says 'yeah, the general information bits are OK but then he devolves to his usual drivel'," he chuckles. No regrets as ex-drugs smuggler Howard Marks lives with cancer - BBC News 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Former New Zealand coach Graham Henry has accused England's players of "spouting drivel" before their crucial Pool A match against Australia. Gossip: Burgess to stay with union 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z At worst, it’s 250 pages of free association and mundane drivel. ‘M Train’ is disappointing follow-up by rocker Patti Smith 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z No disrespect to drivel: ‘‘I’ve made a pretty nice living off of drivel myself,’’ he said. Larry King Is Preparing for the Final Cancellation 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Just look at the contents of that fridg- Oh hang on, there’s more. “... in thinking that yesterday’s football was the most unappetising drivel since drivel appeared on a menu next to something French?” Chelsea v Manchester City: FA Cup fifth round – live! 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Of course a better man would never endorse such a view, much less tolerate staffers who would taint his political brand with such offensive drivel. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z You all love to moody towards our team Cricket is dull and boring, thank God this drivel is on Sky and not wasting my licence fee on the BBC. Eight areas to decide the Ashes 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z They prefer to chase the ratings with drivel like 'the voice.' Open weathers storm for magical end 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z “Let’s keep him around to find out. It’s better than the stale, packaged drivel we get from the rest of the interchangeable Lego-like candidates.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: America's Not Ready To Dump Trump 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z There’s nothing that exemplifies the brainless heights that cable news can reach quite so much as the moments when the participants openly acknowledge that they’re just filling time with informationless drivel. The truth about CNN’s epic “dildo flag” mix-up: Why it represents everything insane about modern media 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z I look at that commercial now and I think, “Oh my God, Did I write that drivel?” The Real-World Peggy Olson on What She Wants from the "Mad Men" Finale 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Judging from the comments on the op-ed, I am not the only subscriber shocked by the Times’ decision to publish this drivel. Frozen Embryos Article Was Intended to Spark Debate: Mission Accomplished. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z We also know, deep down - like true believers know deep down that God is good - that Patrick doesn’t buy this drivel. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Will Hillary’s bid be reduced to sexist drivel in other arenas besides Rush Limbaugh’s fantasy world? Watch out for ‘coded sexism’ if Hillary Clinton runs 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z "This is clearly a bunch of drivel," he says. Aging space probe records odd emanations on Mercury 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z I would ask the NYTimes if GWB's SS Condi Rice did this would it not be a big deal and you would be printing this drivel to excuse this treasonous behavior. Voters Unlikely to Care Much About the Hillary Clinton Email Furor 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The two guys who wrote this fictionalized drivel, especially involving "W" and Clinton are lawyers. Obama, the Least Lame President? 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z A new fad is promulgated weekly, if not daily, and hyped on the morning shows, with glib disregard for the competing drivel hyped with equal enthusiasm last week, or yesterday. Cooks, Kooks, Culture and Calculus: a Lesson in How We Treat Nutrition 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Sanctimoniously thin-skinned industry shills will attack me online for this column, blathering their non sequiturs like “I hate Ken Fisher–nonsense, drivel, spin.” Ken Fisher: Why I Hate Annuities 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Instead, you became a nest of twee images and sexist drivel. The internet fixes Barbie's 'I Can Be a Computer Engineer' picture book 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z But then, frumpy old mom chimes in with some Democratic drivel and tries to get her to buy an ugly dress with sleeves called “Charlie Crist.” This Is the Most Sexist Republican Ad of the Year 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z There were other bits of drivel that dropped—and continue to drop—in my mentions on Twitter, but these are the attacks on Beyoncé’s feminism that I saw repeated most often. Pitting Emma Watson and Beyoncé Against Each Other Is Anti-Feminist 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Oscar, started by techies in New York, tries to be the patient’s ally, swapping insurers’ usual perplexing drivel for clear information. Experimental medicine 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Now we have a cynical American ethos thanks to Hollywood and a diet of drivel on the telly. 'I loved/loathed my 1960s high-rise block' 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z This article, like much drivel advocating trading as a good strategy for the average Joe, seems to ignore Livermore’s end result. Choose Your Mentor Wisely 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Romney, of course, wasn’t making an actual proposal—he is too smart to believe such drivel. Guantanamo Bay is a Stunningly Expensive Failure And it will be all noise and drivel, camouflaging what really happened the past few days. 2014 NBA Finals: For San Antonio Spurs, a triumphant return to the scene of their demise He is careful not to commission a writer whose work he has not already seen elsewhere, though, alas, this doesn't wholly eliminate the possibility that someone will file drivel. Robert Silvers interview: 'Someone told me Martin Scorsese might be interested in making a film about us. And he was' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Sound like the drivel your parents told you when you were 16 that inspired eye-rolling? This Is the Number One Thing That Holds Most People Back From Success 2014-04-22T04:01:47Z Now its plutocracy-defending drivel is both debunked quickly and denounced by politicians – even the one it’s trying to demonize. Bye-bye, fake liberals: The Warren Democrats are winning! 2013-12-05T17:33:00Z They do not represent the actual base of republican voters and their position papers are meaningless drivel. Exclusive: RNC Wants Immigration Reform Without Citizenship 2013-08-16T22:05:23Z "Four hours of rambling, self-serving drivel" that reawakened memories of his appalling crimes and "reopened the question of the wisdom of the state's insistence on keeping this unrepentant child killer alive". Papers pick over Brady's evidence 2013-06-26T05:06:18Z It’s sad because they are only concerned about ordering books in bulk to meet sales margins — Books that are tried-and-tested, formula-driven drivel, found on international bestseller lists. India Ink: Bookshop Memories in a Changing India 2013-06-21T12:54:13Z The next part is drivel: Tiger takes another tee shot, this time with a catcher and umpire behind him. Tiger Woods' New Nike Ad is Confusing 2013-06-11T18:05:24Z I thought we would be plagued with the all too familiar mindless drivel, that has become synonymous with BBC rugby correspondents, for the next six weeks. Adam Jones column: Friendly foes & heat 2013-05-31T05:48:11Z Folks with common sense will ignore the 90% drivel on here, and focus on the positives. Commonwealth ticket prices revealed 2013-05-13T10:53:56Z "With six eyes did he weep, and down three chins/Trickled the tear-drops and the bloody drivel." 10 facts about Hell 2013-05-13T23:49:44Z I hate stupid people and the nonsense drivel they believe in. Senate Guns Down Background Checks 2013-04-18T16:35:31Z Far be it for Joe to not shoehorn in more of his own drivel. Joe Klein: Obamacare's Constant Inefficiencies Could Lead to Its Failure 2013-04-02T21:20:25Z Other types of data, such as sensor output, may be useless drivel to prying eyes. For Cloud Security, Mix It Up With Both Off and On-Premises Systems 2013-01-23T18:19:05Z Incidentally, and ironically, the demise of the shopping mall dreadnoughts has been accompanied by something experts of 20 years ago would have dismissed as romantic drivel. Don't mourn HMV: there are far better places to browse for music now 2013-01-20T00:03:03Z This nugget of anthropological drivel appears to have been a faithful report of the ignorant beliefs of the time. Slavery: Notes from Scientific American 's Archives on the "Peculiar Institution" 2013-01-07T20:15:05.863Z Good God, that kind of drivel is why I don't subscribe any more! Zero Dark Thirty Review: The Girl Who Got Bin Laden 2012-12-22T05:05:00Z Then I saw “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” and I finally understood what all the drivel was driving at. "The Hobbit": What Every Brand Should Learn From It 2012-12-19T12:52:49Z Always plays well to some, even if drivel. Scratching the surface of the Moon 2012-12-08T08:10:15Z A look at West Ham messageboards on Monday reveals the usual mealy-mouthed apologists spouting stone-age drivel about the sanitisation of football and political correctness gone mad. Antisemitic chants are sickening – and West Ham fans must show they care 2012-11-26T14:51:11Z “I’m angry that wasn’t better communicated after months and months and months of drivel,” said Mr. Maslowe, who works in finance in San Francisco. Voters Express Relief and Lingering Confusion as Campaign Ends 2012-11-07T02:31:13Z That is the only explanation for this drivel. How Not To Promote Your Book: A Chat With Dan Wilbur 2012-10-17T17:33:29Z After all, the Fiver's been cranking out its unique brand of drivel for nigh on a decade and has yet to form a consistent editorial line on poor old Milk Cup: "Milk Cup's great!" The Fiver| A touchline shemozzle 2012-09-26T15:18:22Z The message is implicit: if you don't happen to be in ninth grade and you still like this drivel, there is a problem. City Room: Big City Book Club: Discussing Nora Ephron 2012-08-22T18:00:21Z He whose broad forehead was circled with might; Sunk to a time-serving, driveling inanity— God! why not spare our loved country the sight? The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Soon the lower jaw drops from paralysis, allowing the saliva to drivel from the mouth, and the animal can only succeed in closing it momentarily under the greatest provocation to bite. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Nothing but the dreamiest drivel, or delirium, the most wretched and imbecile juggling tricks, with all sorts of evasions, and deceptions and lies! Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The dog that has genuine rabies grows sullen, it hides in comers, and it snaps at everything presented to it A sticky, frothy mucus drivels from its mouth and its eyes become red. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z She tried vainly to picture the type of woman who could write such drivel seriously. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The poor idiot was allowed, if harmless, to wander about the village or the country, to drivel or gibber amidst the teasing or ill-natured treatment of boys or rustics. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I presume he 46 is honest in this opinion, and no doubt regards Bruno, Spinoza and Humboldt as driveling imbeciles. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Get up, Jones, you sneaking, drivelling cur!'—kicking the prostrate form of that fallen hero. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z The sequels of Amadis descend by stages of lessening excellence until at length they approach the limits of drivel. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Longman's talk about the lack of logic in life had seemed to him drivel. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z “You can be natural and talk drivel, and I’ll be warlike.” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z However, no one could deny that even then he was beginning to indulge in senile drivel and chatter. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z "My dear Frankie, don't be under the delusion that you need open your mouth to let the world know that you drivel--it is written on your countenance." A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z And now, coming to Kipps, what am I to say about Kipps but that I am ready, that I am compelled, utterly to drivel about him? The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z If anyone objects to this shameless contention, its advocates contemptuously dismiss him with the disdainful remark: "That is the drivel of a layman, and no man of science would waste his time on it." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Fancy spending hours listening to the drivel he talks when she might be ratting with us,”—which somewhat remarkable comparison would no doubt have rather astonished the Oxford B.A. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Mollie, I'm getting tired of all that kind of drivel. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z And don't you go and pretend that I'm not more to you than that brainless, chinless, sniveling, driveling little fool of an Englishman, for I won't believe it!' The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Poetizing in the face of such suffering as I saw and shared seemed a drivelling impertinence. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Please spend just a couple of minutes with Wikipedia or your nearest geek to figure out what you’re talking about before you write any more ludicrous, misinformed drivel like this again. Cloud May Put Operating Systems Out of Their Misery 2011-10-14T22:41:16Z Having entered upon the downward slope, our faculties gradually lose their vigor, until we sink into the final stage of drivelling old age, and become feeble in mind, as we are helpless in body. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z When she came to herself, she became mad, and is to this day a drivelling idiot, and goes about forever seeking for her child, and cursing the woman who killed it. Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z But we cannot allow him to bring the false and confusing "art" drivel of the day into the garden without showing the absurdity of his ideas. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z Dean Worcester, who copies from Foreman’s book some of the most drivelling paragraphs, lays particular stress upon this fact. The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune 2011-10-03T02:00:24.600Z Still, both provide much needed entertainment and candid reactions and emotions, opposed to the ceaseless cliché drivel sputtered by automatons. DeAngelo Hall is exactly the type of player the Redskins want 2011-09-29T17:05:39Z "I want you to hush all that drivel, Sam," the widow retorted. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Besides, even in the exuberance of his feelings, he was apparently, not quite so royally driveling, as on the occasion of his first outbreak. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z “What drivel!” he exclaimed, tossing the paper aside. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z At drivel of the most nauseous kind between a man and a woman. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Twenty-one minutes by my watch—and such drivel! My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Was he dreaming, or was he infatuated with one of the women, and simply drivelling about her? The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Most that one gets at Christmas parties are such drivel. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z Mr. Isaac Taylor wrote two volumes to prove that ancient Christianity was a drivelling and childish superstition, and in the opinion of some pious Churchmen succeeded in doing so. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z What drivelling fools some men make of themselves! Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z She was absolutely heart-whole—a certain intuition told him this, whereas he—he found himself drivelling into a state bordering on idiotcy. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z This monk," said I, with great vehemence, "who sits there fainting in his chair, is a fantastic, feeble-minded, drivelling dotard. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z You didn't think I am really the sort of person who could write that—that drivel! Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Are we British viewers really capable of coping, on a weekly basis, with anything stronger than the antiseptic drivel seeping out of Andy Townsend's sasshole? Fresh face Gary Neville takes Sky off the fence 2011-08-06T21:55:03Z The wires were crossed, and I had to listen to drivel of the most nauseous kind between a man and a woman. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z To make matters worse, the film has inspired a torrent of management drivel. Horrible Bosses: Truth is nicer than fiction 2011-07-28T11:34:29Z Do you take me for a drivelling boy, to be put off like this, Miriam?” he cried, catching at her hand, but she drew it back. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z Bully Bryant, catching Michael's eye, burst across Paul's drivelling with a hearty guffaw. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Of course it was inevitable – he used to tweet at least six times an hour, endless say-what-you-see drivel. Love in the time of Twitter 2011-07-08T22:01:24Z The class is then punctuated by further drivel about chakras, energy, vibrations and other such metaphysical mythology. iPhone Apps That Could Save Your Health, If Only They Existed 2011-07-08T19:50:24Z Then followed half a dozen lines of appropriate drivel, and a postscript:—“Be sure you send me a big bunch of adleweis from the top of the Matterhorn.” Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z So feel free to lambast me for my drivel, say hello or perhaps more simply, don't do anything. Live - US Open 2011-06-19T13:23:00Z Poor Ralph—” “Mrs. Tucker,” interrupted Murray, “if you say ‘Poor Ralph’ again, you will see a driveling idiot making streaks across the prairie. The Best Policy 2011-06-13T02:00:32.860Z No more Keats, I entreat;—flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself; there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Another day—a whole precious day devoured by your drivelling nonsense! The Ghetto A Drama in Four Acts 2011-06-04T02:00:13.903Z “In what dusty cellar did they dig up that poisonous Stalinist spider who wrote this drivel?” Losing Appeal, Khodorkovsky Calls Case a Sham 2011-05-24T18:15:51Z Why, the drivelling folly I have witnessed for the last half hour or more! The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z She is quite conscious of drivelling, and often laughs as she does so, or lets her hearers understand that she doesn't mean any harm by it. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z I love my newspaper on Saturdays and Sundays, but I won't bother this week as they will be full of sycophantic drivel. Royal wedding: Where were you? 2011-04-29T12:18:17Z There is, we maintain, a vast difference between vanity, however preposterous, and sheer undaunted drivel, which latter article constitutes the staple of Master Mungo's conversation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z "Men, men, what forgotten age have you stepped out of that you come to me with such driveling, doddering, blank idiocy?" The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z We have wasted four good days in drivel and talk, when we should have been making good our vantage. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z She does not express herself very clearly, but rather in a mysterious sort of way, and the boundary line at which she begins to drivel is not always quite clearly apparent. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z Mr. Shelley’s poetry is, in sober sadness, drivelling prose run mad.... Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Not but what a driveller may be a fair character for a play, but then he ought to drivel with some kind of consistency and likelihood. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Look at Swift: he was a lord of the creation, and made the women fear him; look at him drivelling and doting under the care of a servant-maid. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Minus, numskull, drivelling baby, Greenhorn, dunce, and dotard Gaby; All the queer and loony chorus Found in old Roget’s Thesaurus, Flat and crazy through and through, That, O Idiot—that is you. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z I so old, feeble, and drivelling as that? Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z The many poems, stories and plays about "mother," "baby," "the flag," "home," "our country," etc., are often drivelling sentimentalism and not poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z We acquit every one of them of participation in this dreary drivel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z To him it was anathema, the root of all evil, the Goliath he was out to destroy, the blind beast squatting on men's bones, the idiot drivelling on the village green. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z Fellowman, do you marvel that my tale of climbing the peak came to an end almost in drivel? A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z When I arrived here first, I regarded the funny page of a newspaper as pure drivel; now I never miss having a good laugh when I read it. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z Any man who writes such drivel Must be capable of worse. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z But endearing rubbish - these days all we get is mindless drivel like The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing. Saturday Clockwatch - live! 2011-01-22T14:00:00Z All his quotations are as apt as this one would be, and the wiseacre imagines he is adorning his drivel with the multitude of his quotations. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z He felt that he was giving up life and its every hope, but the fear of madness, or driveling idiocy, was worse than this. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z December 25, 2010 11:50 AM What a dishonest piece of drivel. Chevy Volt Versus Nissan Leaf: Let the Race Begin 2010-12-23T20:17:02Z "You are making a —— mess of the whole affair with your confounded drivel." One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z It proved once and for all that proverb mistrusted by generations of postal workers, "barking dogs do not bite", was utter drivel. Su?rez isn't the first to have a nibble 2010-11-22T14:50:00Z Give me a break with this self important drivel. City Room: Goodbye, New York. Thanks for Breaking My Heart. 2010-10-13T16:40:00Z Excerpts ahead: I got to thinking how in this day and age we hang on every little drivel of news about the things we care about — often 140 characters or less at a time. Calling for Calm on the Giants, and for Calm in General 2010-08-26T10:51:00Z But when Google tells me that this drivel is the most relevant result, I can't help thinking, the game's up. Google News gets gamed by a crappy content farm 2010-08-20T15:21:00Z "You must consider the drivel we have just listened to as of some importance, then," I declared. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z “But, given our historical skepticism of permitting the government to police the line between truth and falsity, and between valuable speech and drivel, we presumptively protect all speech, including false statements.” Stolen Valor Act Is Declared Unconstitutional by Circuit Court 2010-08-18T20:21:00Z "Just do your job and stop wasting shareholder funds on mindless drivel like this," ran a post on www.iii.co.uk regarding Empyrean Energy Friday morning. U.K. Firms Target Bulletin Boards 2010-08-16T09:42:00Z Armstrong responded to Contador’s comments last year by saying on his page, “If I were him I’d drop this drivel and start thanking his team.” With Adversaries No Longer Teammates, Contador Ready to Defend a Title 2010-07-03T00:40:00Z This offensive drivel was calculated to wring contributions from a narrowly targeted segment of the population. The roots of Rand Paul's civil rights resentment 2010-05-21T20:22:00Z This is good, because football is much better than that drivel Graham Norton's presenting on the other side, but bad, because it is bad. The Fiver 2010-05-21T15:27:00Z Maybe only once every three days instead of before, because I'd be a bit short on content, but at least you wouldn't have some mindless drivel created by somebody with actual access. You thought "Inside the Clubhouse" was fun? Wait until you get a load of "Outside the Clubhouse" 2010-04-23T02:50:00Z Communications – as in so many of our media – are minimally policed and may be complete fabrications presented by fictional constructs, rants from special interest groups, thinly veiled advertising, horribly unveiled self-promotion, or simply drivel. Top 50 Twitter feeds for the arts 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z And it's no longer April Fool's Day, which means that instead of filling their pages with faintly original made-up drivel, we have to read a load of utterly predictable made-up drivel. Football transfer rumours: Nemanja Vidic to Milan? 2010-04-02T08:56:00Z In Dante’s language, by way of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation, “With six eyes did he weep, and down three chins/Trickled the tear drops and the bloody drivel.” Beliefs: Translating Dante?s Descent as a Video Game 2010-03-27T00:25:00Z Did these people get paid for this drivel? Complaint Box | Workout Miscreants 2010-02-19T15:37:00Z The speech was inspired drivel, a series of distortions and oversimplifications, totally bereft of nourishing policy proposals — the sort of thing calculated, carefully calculated, to drive lamestream media types like me frothing to their keyboards. 2010-02-11T14:50:00Z Who knows but that at that moment we may have thought our friend little better than a fool, and his words the drivel of idiotcy? A Cursory History of Swearing But this "drivel," as he expressed it, nauseated him. The Undying Past Such is the drivel which we have often heard oozing, drop by drop, from a male creature of the prosy kind. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 I could see no humour in the melancholy indications of drivelling madness, and added a stern expression to the gravity with which I intended to subdue a cruel and ill-timed levity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 I’ll hear no more of your mad drivel,” cried the young man savagely. The Parson O' Dumford I had no idea you were in such a drivelling state as this, or I should have jawed you sooner. "Pip" A Romance of Youth "If you hadn't played the drivelling idiot, the life-saving performance would have been comfortably over half an hour ago." A Poached Peerage That play will end by making a driveling idiot of me. The Hillman To be drunk on a public platform; to allow your picture to be thrown on a screen, while he stammered out his drunken drivel. The Man Who Rose Again I told him last night not to make a driveling idiot of himself. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Hut, tut! and have I been drivelling here all this time," exclaimed the dame, "without once spending a thought upon your cattle! Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency When a man looks silly, the single eye-glass finishes him and makes him look like a drivelling idiot. Rambles in Womanland "Certainly," said Johnson Boller, without thought and solely because Anthony's precise driveling interested him a little more than the affair of the ring. In And Out "Why haven't I the pluck to take the plunge, instead of being the whining, drivelling idiot I am?" he cried. The Man Who Rose Again "I hate rows as much as you do," was the answer; "but I am not inclined to knock under, to this pair of drivelling old idiots." Under the Mendips A Tale Kenneth had talked a lot of drivel but he probably was right about stagnation. Helena Brett's Career "Most of them, when I could escape the notes and grammarian's drivel." Years of Plenty He told himself confidentially, the news to go no further, that he was a drivelling idiot. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction No more whining sentimentality for me!" he cried, "no more moral platitudes, no more drivel about trying to be a good man. The Man Who Rose Again I’m sure Finny wouldn’t like them to go on drivelling like that. The Youngest Girl in the School His mind fails; he sits in the chimney corner driveling about the horrible winters they used to have when you could curse a daughter out almost any day in the week. Ewing\\'s Lady So, Mr Chamberlain," he said, "we have got, I find, another animal added to our herd of fawning, drivelling courtiers. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 Suffield hardly knew what to answer, so he fired off volleys of commonplaces, which, treading on each other’s heels, soon merged into the most drivelling of incoherences. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Who is to keep quiet when he listens to such idiotic drivel? Blind Policy That drivel gives me a real reason to kill you, farmer. Thy Rocks and Rills Are men, indeed, such things? and are the best More subject to this evil than the rest; To drivel out whole years of idiot breath, And sit the monuments of living Death! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 "For pity's sake, Lou," he said, "don't make a drivelling coward of me now." The Heart of a Woman Just read those lines; would you believe that any creature out of Ham well could descend to such miserable drivel as that? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance No wonder that people of common intelligence, who find at their friend's house drivel such as this, should look upon the novel as unworthy. A Novelist on Novels It has been my lot, in after-years, to hear a great deal of political drivel in French and English, but it was sound philosophy compared to what I heard that morning. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The return verses of the Duke are little better than drivelling. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition You must despise me for being a drivelling fool, but I have neither eyes nor ears now. The Heart of a Woman Poor old Joyce Boanes was hanged in return for her drivelling ravings. Witch Stories "I told you to knock off that drivel." The Executioner The conversation drivelled on in this way for a few miles, and finally turned into a heated discussion of the wine-list at the back of the menu. On the right of the British line Humanity begets weaklings, cowards, driveling idiots whose highest evolution is that shapeless thing called Hope, whose greatest virtue is submission to the anomalies of civilization. The Song of the Wolf You see how easily I drift into being a drivelling fool? The Heart of a Woman It was a matter of wonderment to see these poor creatures developing from a driveling state of nonentity into some capacity for the enjoyment of life, and even to a degree of usefulness. The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University The drivers would become blundering idiots, driveling futile profanity. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro Are we a generation of driveling, sniveling, degraded slaves? The Struggle for Missouri Strange to say, there is testimony of good wits that he was by no means a fool; yet such drivelling rubbish as he and his coadjutors wrote even the present day has hardly seen. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) "If I would let myself dwindle down to the level of drivelling fools," he said. The Heart of a Woman Then his reflections driveled off into stupor, and he sat on an empty keg with the conical crown of his old felt hat pointed forward, and his hands hanging limply between his knees. Stories of the Foot-hills There is a deal of sentimental drivel spouted about the condition of slaves. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) You have certainly succeeded in lending an air of drivel to a controversy that I regard as serious. Cynthia's Chauffeur I'd give five hundred dollars not to have drooled that drivel about being her brother! John March, Southerner His son publishes none of them in the late biography, and it is safe to say that in all the range of literature there are no other letters filled with such drivelling idiocy as these. Home Life of Great Authors Continue to address P. R.11 Menton; and try to conceive it as possible that I am not a drivelling idiot. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) And so you filled up with a lot of bad whisky and driveled and wept and stumbled through the case and I beat you. In the Heart of a Fool “Yet you will say to His Majesty that I did suggest–yes, I do now–that they had better not––” His utterance drivelled to incoherency. The Missourian "What has this drivel to do with your stopping here?" she asked angrily. The Benefactress I suppose it would sound like drivel if I were to repeat it. That Mother-in-Law of Mine Some of them have emitted quantities of sheer drivel. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Up I sprang and cursed my snivelling Soul for weariness—for drivelling, And for so forgetting Hate. Nirvana Days They may circulate it in sermons, in which eloquent nonsense is drivelled with impunity, but they will not venture to propound it in a court, where common sense and equity bear sway. The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted Men who were perfect giants by day would become the gentlest babies at night, allowing their wives to read to them such sentimental drivel as would have been kicked from the office by day. The Harbor This profligate drivel is uttered by the Nestor of the commonwealth, an infirm old man, with one foot in the grave. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 After four months in the "spirit world" he is positively trembling and drivelling! Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) When charity drivels it ought to be turned off by justice! Hidden Hand There had been moments, days perhaps, of discouragement, when he regarded it as drivel, and himself as a fool—in so far, that is, as he had trafficked with literature. A Great Man A Frolic "I merely happened to be forestalling your views, when a recent decision occurred to me and——" Jones' remarks were lost, drowned by others, by questions, exclamations, the drivel that amazement creates. The Paliser case Rascal yourself, you worn-out, driveling breath of corruption! The Strollers This little gem set in the silver sea, this isle, this realm, this England, is becoming a paltry concern, is fast being Gladstoned into drivelling imbecility. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule He lowered his eyes—and remained motionless, gasping for breath, dazed, with fixed eyes, fairly drivelling with terror. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories The "romance" of space—drivel written in the old days. Death of a Spaceman Austen himself was a drivelling idiot and his wife used to be a rare old girl—is still, I daresay—but they came of good stock, and the daughter has looks and no brains. The Paliser case A really acute critic could hardly have mistaken the difference between Scott's verse and the fustian or tinsel of the Della Cruscans, the frigid rhetoric of Darwin, or the drivel of Hayley. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series The driveling idiot seemed to grow fat on getting people into trouble! Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The more he thought it over, the more nonsense it became, as all words turn to drivel on repetition; but chiefly he was amazed that even love could have wrought this change in him. In a Little Town He felt—he saw himself—a drivelling sentimentalist. Dr. Sevier Morrow, are you a driveling idiot, or an operative? The Crevice The pedagogue with his drivel and discipline, he could not learn to love. The Book of Khalid When Sigmund came here it was he who saved me from doing something desperate or driveling—there is not much of a step between the two. The First Violin A Novel As I've told you before, I am not competent to say whether it's great or whether it's downright drivel—it's years since I discovered my limitations. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Why, what do you mean by such drivelling nonsense, sir? Dr. Sevier He returned to Denmark, but met with nothing but ridicule and contempt for his absurd drivelling away of time over useless pursuits. Pioneers of Science I wonder," said Mrs. Wyburn nervously—one could see she was not listening, and thought Miss Westbury was merely drivelling on—"whether you will come to the point at once? The Limit Who but a driveling fanatic has thought of the necessity of protecting domestic animals from the cruelty of their owners? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject He also knows that sort of sham kindness of yours, the drivelling sentimentality that makes you shed crocodile tears over the people you victimize; And he planned the whole farce! The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base. The Brothers Karamazov Wearied with the monotony of fashionable dissipation and the driveling idiocy of flirtations, women were glad to hear a few sensible, wholesome truths. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II An old, drivelling dotard takes to his home and bed a virgin in her teens, whom he has purchased, but as he has gone through a formal ceremony, law and the world pronounce her wife. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston But the dullest pretender could discourse a jumble of pious bigotry, natural rights, and driveling philanthropy. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject He had never read such appalling drivel in his life. Bones in London The whole speech was a mixture of inane drivel and reckless aspersion. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Such was Barty's humor, as a boy—mere drivel—but of such a kind that even his butts were fond of him. The Martian But let not the reader suppose that he was either a superannuated coxcomb or a driveling dotard. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston "And there is that poor man Barnes has gone altogether out of his mind, and has become a drivelling idiot." The Fixed Period His enthusiasm for nature was but the drivelling sensibility of the drunkard. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands What the devil is the old gentleman always drivelling about now? Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts He twisted two pocket‑handkerchiefs into human figures, one on each hand, and made them sing to each other—like Grisi and Mario in the Huguenots—and clever drivel of that kind. The Martian In later life it means folly and drivelling, wrinkles badly hidden under paint, pencilled eyebrows, and false hair. Vixen, Volume III. Oh, what an imbecile, a simple, drivelling idiot, he had been! Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Possibly a drivelling confession, and the more drivelling perhaps the more development I should attempt for it; from which, however, the very difficulty of the case saves me. A Small Boy and Others We have had a fire here, but our people put it out before the parish-engine arrived, like a drivelling perambulator, with the beadle in it, like an imbecile baby. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Lad, if you desire not the finest thrashing ever you had yet, cast down that drivelling folly of a silver toy, and turn up your sleeves and go to work like a man! It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Mackintosh, says Mill, uses 'macaroni phrases,' 'tawdry talk,' 'gabble'; he gets 'beyond drivelling' into something more like 'raving'; he 'deluges' us with 'unspeakable nonsense.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill There is a good deal of incoherent drivel these days about the freedom of science. The Goose Man He dilates his nostrils as much as possible; he drivels, saying to himself that there is enough there to last for a year, for ten years, for his whole life! The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul But when a giant is made to drivel, his drivelings are very little better than those of a pigmy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 He said I had performed a miracle, that I had converted a few lines of drivelling nonsense—just the sort of stuff that would attract the professor—into a masterpiece. Diversions in Sicily Even the cats of the settlement were present, including that celebrated kitten which had been reduced to a state of drivelling imbecility by the furious advent of the Wild Man. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains She put the money in a woollen stocking, rolled it up in a knot, stuffed it down her corset between her breasts, made the sign of the cross, and repeated one of her drivelling formulas. The Goose Man See here, I can guess what unmitigated drivel it is. Floyd Grandon's Honor Undoubtedly the fatuous drivel of certain writers had influenced even the Army itself. No Man's Land Are we in this case to coddle, to sympathize, to let ourselves be led into philanthropic drivel over 'judge not that ye be not judged'? Flamsted quarries Too many of them confuse rambling with drivelling. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 It was said that a great batch of this drivel was cut out, credited and sent to McElwin, and Lyman accused Warren, but he denied it, though not with convincing grace. Old Ebenezer Was this senseless drivel, prophetic sight, or threatened murder? The Bronze Hand 1897 You can scarcely imagine how wise people like the Egyptians could ever have believed in such drivel. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt "Stow that drivel, cookie," growled a voice which I recognized as belonging to the older Fleming. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure Why don't you call me down when I start that drivel? The Straw There are multitudes of cases in which, when too great a weight has been crowded on the delicate organism through which thoughts move, its balance has been upset, and it has drivelled into idiocy. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. But no drivel about accidents or mysteries, if you please. Danger! and Other Stories I know that during these last few years he has poured out a great deal of drivel, but I cannot forget books like The New Abelard, and especially, God and the Man. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Dead: some by their own hands; down and out many, drivelling sottishly of by-gone days; poor prospectors a few, dreaming of a new gold strike. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance We can not waste time upon the dreary drivel on the inflation side of this campaign. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes "Why, it struck me so often—certainly in a due proportion of cases—as pure drivel!" Embarrassments But no drivel about accidents or mysteries, if you please.” Danger! and Other Stories Thereafter Patsy laid herself out to tease Louis, to bedazzle the poor boy's brain, and to reduce him to the state of drivelling incompetence induced by disobedience to the Arlington and dancing with herself. Patsy He looked up hastily, and saw a blear-eyed youth in a state of drivelling intoxication, staring at him with the expression of an idiot. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure He wishes for 'a boat' to sail the deeps— Of ocean?—No, of air; and then he makes Another outcry for 'a little boat,' And drivels seas to set it well afloat. Don Juan "I'm naturally anxious that it may be a son," he drivelled, "as there are so few male representatives of the old name now." Some Everyday Folk and Dawn He braved the staircase, leaving those scenes of drivelling festivity. Clayhanger Thanks to the drivelling idiotcy of Warminster, who doesn’t even know the feminine genitive of corpus, he scraped through; and, as he couldn’t do much worse than Coxhead, he did a shade better.’” Tom, Dick and Harry "Good gracious, Patty," cried Nan, gasping, "do you think your father is too old to understand that drivel?" Patty Blossom Those sanctimonious fools with their endless drivel about the Church of the Spirit of Mankind Incarnate. The Status Civilization Some of them, namely, seem to include elements of super-normal knowledge; others to show a curious subconscious mania for personation and deception; others again to be mere drivel. Memories and Studies "I'm willing to be decent about it, Tom, but I don't want to listen to drivel like that." Left End Edwards I did not mean to feel the drivel of self pity, but it is a ghastly thing to be all alone and anxious, when everyone else is shouting for joy. Man and Maid Pope, Jonson, Steevens and even Malone have made so many minute, technical changes in the Folio Plays of 1623, printed seven years after the death of Shakspere, that their presumptive elucidation often drivels into obscurity. Shakspere, Personal Recollections The God of thy fathers hath no more power than yonder driveling granny. The Coming of the King He called me "ignoramus," and wondered what "this fellow" meant by his literary drivelling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 "Well, give me the note; why stand there like a driveling fool," for the fellow's hesitant manner angered and frightened me. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV No manner of pulpit drivel can delude even the unthinking masses to this misconception. The Necessity of Atheism Once a bright boy, kind, affectionate, active, intelligent, the pride of a loving mother and the hope of a doting father, his mind had sunken to driveling idiocy. Plain Facts for Old and Young Here, then, is that quality of peculiarly hopeless poetasting which strikes cold upon the stomach, and makes man turn sadly from his drivelling brother. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 "If I'm the kind of drivelling idiot you make out, my actions are of no importance, either to you or to any one else." The Simpkins Plot Do not start any drivelling discussions about whether the word Shaw is German or Scandinavian or Iberian or Basque. George Bernard Shaw Then having nothing else to do I sit down and write the largest and most drivelling letter I have ever written in my life, I call it No. 35. Letters from France "There are old men who marry young wives, and who pay the penalty by becoming martyrs to paralysis, softening of the brain, and driveling idiocy." Plain Facts for Old and Young You can now keep them all, by simply saying what you know to be the truth,—that that old man was a drivelling idiot when he made this will. Can You Forgive Her? To relieve his mind he wrote eleven or twelve hundred lines of fresh drivel, in which he assailed everything and everybody. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters "I've wanted you so much to know all about it," he said, "and now that you do, it sounds—oh, drivelling." Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers It was, of course, my business to prove that he was a despicable knave and a drivelling idiot. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Otherwise it would be good to lose all remembrance, to forget, to dream, to lapse into the nothingness of the vacant eye, the down-drooping lid and the drivel. The Way of the Wind "Cut the sentimental drivel short," cut in Hume unpleasantly. The Short Cut Bradford was bowling the most utter drivel half the time, I would have given anything to have been batting. The Loom of Youth The more toothless and drivelling, often the more venerable. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 The phrenzy of the "Poems" was bad enough in its way; but it did not alarm us half so seriously as the calm, settled, imperturbable, drivelling idiocy of "Endymion." Early Reviews of English Poets "I know I'm a drivelling idiot to cry!" she said, her voice high and tremulous. The Swindler and Other Stories But lest you think I am uncivil, To plague you with this draunting drivel, Abjuring a’ intentions evil, I quat my pen: The Lord preserve us frae the devil, Amen! amen! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Your drivelling talk about stewing up their eyes and hearts to make drinks is all a foolish lie. The Shipwreck A Story for the Young It is pitiful indeed to find in "the collected and revised works," thirty-six volumes, the drivel of his Pro-Slavery advocacy, and of ill-conditioned snarling at honest men labouring to reform ancient abuses. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Must these men visit him in the cell of the asylum, watch him as a raving maniac, gaze upon him as a hopeless idiot or a driveling imbecile, before they will be convinced? Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Drivel; faddy drivel, but the girl's a lady, or whatever that word stands for. The Shield of Silence Any school boy could have trolled off yards of the same drivelling cleverness; and Eleanor's innocent telephone call was, of course, lugged in. The Freebooters of the Wilderness It was only the maudlin drivel of a man not responsible for what he was saying. The Tin Soldier Dogs, dogs," drivelled old Horace Talbot, "Beachfield 's always talking about dogs. The Sport of the Gods Take up that chronicle at middle age and see its weak and driveling character. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future This laundry strike——" "I said 'drivelling,' not 'dribbling.' Berry And Co. It was a pleasant day, and we would have enjoyed the loaf in the warm afternoon sunshine, had it not been for the unending drivel of the passenger. The Blood Ship "I start to drivel after a while, because I tell how I devised Upstairs, Downstairs and how the cast was chosen." 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s You won't think me drivelling, will you, or presuming, if I beg you to remember that fact, and that you are, notwithstanding your foreign birth, one of us? A People's Man Of an evening I wrote drivel for the papers. The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher For goodness' sake," said his wife, "don't sit there drivelling——" "Sorry," said Berry, "but I haven't got a clean bib left. Berry And Co. It is, you know, as some poets paint us, all the joy of an old fool's life to sit well and warm with a cup and a roasted crabapple, and drivel and drink and talk! Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens I hate to see a brave bold fellow sotted, Made sour and senseless, turned to whey by love; A drivelling hero, fit for a romance.— The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 He is so fortunate as to possess in a high degree what Bayard Taylor calls "secondary inspiration," without which the work of a translator becomes a soulless mass and frequently degenerates into the veriest drivel. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway You big, driveling idiot, how can I know what you are talking about? A Man and a Woman I was walking through Flail according to plan, and following the tram-lines according to the drivelling advice given me by an outside porter with a suggestive nose. Berry And Co. "Go them—and another five—and another—there—that's something like a man, and let's have no more woman's drivel about dying." A Man's Woman He appeared now in his glory—frantic and destructive; but amidst all this drivelling impetuosity, it was not difficult to detect some desperate and unshaken purpose in his heavy but violent and bloodshot eyes. The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Are men indeed such things? and are the best More subject to this evil than the rest, To drivel out whole years of idiot breath, And sit the monuments of living death? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 But he was not one to drivel over a hopeless passion. Ishmael Or, In the Depths Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men maunder and drivel. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) A Guy in a Blue Mask, who carried a placard bearing the name of the Ex-Premier, described the remarks of both his brother Guys as pestilent drivel. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892 How long he sat there, reeling off this drivel, he never knew. The Ragged Edge Away she goes, the little fairy, to rejoice the drivelling fools on the other side of the screens. Madame Chrysantheme An enthusiast he undoubtedly was, but not the drivelling dotard that some of his biographers imagine. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 His thoughts centred on his past, and he became an abject drivelling confessionist, emptying himself of deeds that were awful to listen to, and had been kept to himself for years. Windjammers and Sea Tramps "What the dickens is the woman drivelling about?" the General demanded. The Imaginary Marriage "Don't drivel," I commanded; "why does he hang about with that awful Freedham?" Tell England A Study in a Generation See here, my dear girl, haven't you got anything better to do this morning than to loll all over my sofa and talk drivel when I want to write a letter blowing up somebody? Winnie Childs The Shop Girl I am averse to his suit, and yet he ceaseth not to vex me continually with his drivelling ditties. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Thou hast seen thy long successor rise and reign and fall, succeeded in its turn by the brilliant capital that now sends hither its subjects to scoff at thy driveling old age. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Modern wits sneer at the scholastic drivelling or the cloudy mistiness of the writers of the middle ages. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 Four hours a day is stamped all over the slack drivel they publish. Jaffery Under the "Judges," the people were, at times, low enough to enjoy such drivelling. The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) All of which Julius Caesar,—being a real man, mind you,—holds in profoundest contempt for driveling unreality; which it certainly is. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Death’s a sight better than a soft head an’ a lifetime o’ dirt an’ drivelling an’ babbling, like the brainless beasts they feed an’ fatten in asylums. Children of the Mist That's where the man's heart really lies," said his stern critic, "even if he does drivel about his little flower with bones and a voice! Ma Pettengill And Tourneur's abortive attempt at allegoric discourse is but a preposterous freak of prolonged eccentricity: this paraphrase is simply a tideless and interminable sea of limitless and inexhaustible drivel. The Age of Shakespeare It will make its victim a miserable, drivelling slave, to be continually lashed and scourged into the doing of its low and wretched promptings. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。